Sophia L. Pink

Sophia L. Pink
  • Doctoral Candidate

Contact Information

  • office Address:

    3730 Walnut Street
    527.9 Jon M Hunstman Hall
    Philadelphia, PA 19104

Overview

Sophia is a PhD student at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

She studies decision-making and behavior change in organizations. Her research focuses on: (a) understanding how people make decisions, and (b) designing tools and interventions that promote wiser choices.  She conducts field experiments to examine behavior in organizations and lab experiments study psychological mechanisms.

Sophia’s research has been published in journals such as Organization Science, Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Nature Human Behavior.

Before coming to Wharton, Sophia worked as a research coordinator at the Polarization and Social Change Lab at Stanford University. Sophia received an M.S. and B.S. from Stanford University, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

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